(1) From your pack of 'Dinky' Christmas Quilt's paper pack, take two brown pieces of paper and stick to front and inside of kraft card blank.
(2) Stamp up image, twice. Colour in both and cut centre cat out from one image.
(3) Die-cut image using Hexagon die and edge with ink.
(4) Die-cut a further hexagon shape, add another sentiment and stick inside card.
(5) Stamp up sentiment onto white card, edge with ink. Matt onto edge of kraft card and stick down with sticky pads.
(6) Tie ribbon around top of card blank and make a bow.
(7) Thread baker's twine through wooden button and tie to ribbon.
(8) Add two little pearls to edges of sentiment.

Thursday, 30 July 2015

Good morning and happy Thursday to all...It is Avril here with my Step by Step, which is quite apt today, as I will be meeting my Grand-daughter Sinead, who was 17 yesterday, for some birthday shopping and lunch.

I found that the Dinkie paper pads were perfect for using with the Pop Up Cards.

I decorated the Pop-Up card with Dinkies Papers - adding a border Using Tattered Lace - Kensington Border. I then coloured in Lydia Goes Shopping with Promarkers, using Soft Lime, Lemon and Canary for the Yellows, Denim Blue and Frosted Blue for the Blues, Satin and Blush for Skin, Tan and Tawny Owl for Hair...I added a touch of Gold Glitter Pen, to the Heart on the bag and the flower centre on the other bag.

I then die cut some fashion style images.

Here is the complete Card:-

Front View

Side View

Hope you like my wee Step by Step, and find some inspiration. Thank you for reading.

Tuesday, 28 July 2015

Look what's arrived at Little Claire...these two new fabulous Christmas dies at only £6.50 each - both dies cut, emboss and stencil and we think both stars would make the perfect addition to your Christmas cards. Choose from either the gorgeous Star Bunting, Text & Stars or Shining Star.... grab 'em quick before they go!

COMPETITION WINNERS ....
Thanks to everyone who entered last week's competition to win one of our new Christmas Silhouette stamps. The three winners chosen at random are:

Kath....'All three stamps are lovely, but my favourite is the Silhouette Snowman.'Glennis....'They all great, but I think the last one 'So Exciting" comes in first'

Ursula.....'They are all lovely, but I think my favourite is the little girl decorating the tree...something quite different for cards this year...many thanks Ursula xx'

Saturday, 25 July 2015

Good morning everyone - hope you're having a lovely weekend. It's Helen here with a photo tutorial to show you how to assemble to brand new Pop Up Box Cards which are now available on the website here.

1. First of all, open up the card blank and then score it as shown in the photo below:

2. Decorate the card before assembling it. I started with the shorter panels which are the ones split up into three separate pieces. These panels are going to fold down round the opening of the card - bear this in mind if your paper has a 'right way'. When you make your first card and are working out how it all fits together, it's probably easiest to use a pattern like spots or gingham. I've used paper from the 'Mini Quirky Quilts Paper' which is here. Attach three pieces to the card base as shown in the photos below.

3. Turn the card over and decorate the three longer panels with coordinating paper.

4. Stick some tape (red line tape if you have it) on the little tab, fold this round and sticker inside the box to give you the shape in the photo below. Stick a final piece of patterned paper on the top half of the panel at the back of the card - this will be behind your stamps backdrop.

5. Next separate the two struts and fold them as shown in the photo below:

6. I've kept my card very simple and have used two images from the 'Lovely Hedgehog Stamp Set' which is here on the Little Claire website. I would suggest leaving a gap at the bottom of your image to allow it to be seen over the edge of the box. Layer the images on to kraft card as shown in the photo below:

7. I've attached an image panel to the two opposite ends of the struts as shown in the photo below:

8. Attach tape to both ends of the strut and stick these to the inside of the box card as shown in the photo below:

Thursday, 23 July 2015

Hello its Alli here with today's digi stamp project and I just love these Little Claire hedgehogs and the colours in the patchwork papers made a really strong base to work my card colour scheme around. I apologise now if any of you haven't got a graphics program because I have used mine quite a bit for this card, but you can still get the basic idea and improvise with shop bought papers if you don't have one.

Using the My Craft Studio Elite CD (backgrounds) select design 179 from the every day section and import this into your graphics program. Open the design to A4 size and then shrink down to 6" wide and crop to 6" long.
With your graphics program re colour the design to match the green of the Quirky Quit paper.
Using the My Craft Studio CD select design 181 from the every day section and import this onto the same page in your graphics program as the previous design 179.
Crop the design to lager than the finished size and re colour to match the mustard gingham of the Quirky Quilt paper.
Print the papers onto a good quality mat print paper (I printed a small test sample of the designs onto copy paper to see if the colours match the Quirky Quilt paper).

Cut the printed papers to the desired size.

Tint the edges of the green paper with Tim Holts Bundled Sage distress ink using the Cut n Dry.
Mat and layer the printed paper onto black paper and stick onto the centre of the base card.

Tint the edges of the mustard gingham paper with Tim Holtz Tea Die distress ink using the Cut n Dry.
Mat and layer the printed paper onto black paper.
Stick the moss green satin ribbon onto the gingham paper and secure at the back with tape.
Stick the gingham paper onto the base card.

Open the cute Little Claire Splishing and Splashing digi stamp in your graphics program and re size to 6.5cm from left puddle to right puddle.

Write the sentiment using your graphics programand re size to around 4.7cm (I use Serif Craft Artist as my graphics program and the font I have used is Troutkings BTF).
Print the image and sentiment onto card.

Cut the image to size and colour in.
Mat and layer the image onto black paper.
Cover the rain drops and puddles with Glossy Accents and leave to dry.
Stick the image topper onto the base card.

Stick the daisy flowers embellishments onto the card. (the large flower was made using a Marianne flower die and the smaller flowers were made using a Cheery Lynn die, centres were made with a hole punch and coloured with Tim Holts distress ink Spiced Marmalade).

and again, you can see our lovely Falling Snow papers teamed with this new stamp, aren't they just gorgeous!

designed by Diane

Well, there we are, our 3 new Christmas Silhouette stamps teamed up with our lovely new Falling Snow and Snowy Ombre papers - we have a fantastic selection of card samples to take with us to shows and classes this Autumn - and we haven't stopped yet...there is more to come!

You can buy all three of our new Christmas Silhouette stamps for just £10.00

COMPETITION

We are offering 3 lucky people the chance to win the Christmas Silhouette stamp of their choice - just leave a comment letting us know which image is your favourite 3 winners will each win their fav C'mas Silh stamp, winners announced Mon 27 July.

Saturday, 18 July 2015

We have a fantastic selection of digital downloadable images to choose from for just £1.20 each, like this gorgeous Silhouette Lighthouse image on the card above designed by one of our customers; Lucy Woods - look what you can create - isn't it lovely?

Once downloaded, the image is yours to keep, use as many times as you wish and you can make it any size to suit your project, which is so useful. Print out onto card, colour, mount and off you go -
see our full range of digital images here

Thursday, 16 July 2015

Today I decided to make a pop up box card...you will find more details on my blog here

Instructions

Print out the geranium several times and in two sizes and then colour them.

Make the box...The net is a 6.5 by 12 inch panel scored at 2.75, 5.5, 8.25 and 11 inches and then 2.75 inches down. The inch wide tab is trimmed on the right hand side and slits cut from the top down to the 2.75 horizontal score line.Also needed are two strips 1 inch by 4.75 inches with a 1inch scored tab at each end.

3. Decorate the net inside and out.

4. Fold in the tab and glue in place. At this point it is best to fold all score lines well and

make sure the card lies flat to go in an envelope.

5. Next add the tabs to hold the 'surprises' inside...these are the two strips 1 inch by 4.75 inches with a 1inch scored tab at each end. Then decorate with the smaller geraniums...

Tuesday, 14 July 2015

We're having a bit of a clear out here at Little Claire shedquarters as we need to make room for some lovely new Christmas Dinkies stamps so we've decided to say goodbye to some of our older designs. That means a SALE!!!! Woohoo!!

Yes, some of our Dinkies and Circular Sentiments have been reduced to £1.00 so click here and have a gander. You'd better be quick, it's only until stocks last.....

GO SHOPPING!

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